By any other name would smell as sweet…

Khaja and her bear starred on Mania’s Name That Pet feature the other week and it’s about time I got around to actually choosing one! I have to say, the people there are very creative with their naming and there’s so many to choose from. In fact, I complied a list of all the names that were suggested:

Skittles (someone then suggested that I should have a emote that says “Taste the rainbow, b*tches!” 😀 )

Frolic

Pooch

Hungry

Shake

Froyd

Thomas

Pooh

Shardik (suggested several times actually)

Grungie

Sludge

Ooze

Fozzy

Ozzy

Poxy

Wormy

Wormsy

Itchy

Ribsy

Baby

Sweetling

Precious

Happy

Cuddlebear

Scabs

Prophecy

Tazdingo (good thinking! Goes with the troll accent)

Patches

Bob 😀

Pestilence

Kasdeya

ExFeral

Ebonlaes

Landavarian

Googoo

Plague

Penicillin

So many good ones to choose from. Looking over them all now in list form, I’ve picked out a couple that I really like: Grumpy (maybe GrumpyBruce after my boss’s friend that enjoys bugging me), Voodoo (goes perfectly with the whole Jamaican-like accent that trolls have), Skittles (the whole emote thing is hilarious!), Pestilence (I mean, come on…he’s one of the four horsemen!), and Tethcler (just because it sounds cool). I’m going to think it over and maybe get some of my friend’s opinions. Thanks to everyone who submitted a suggestion and an especially big thank-you to Mania for featuring Khaja!

In voodoo, Baron Samedi (also: Baron Saturday, Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi, or Bawon Sanmdi) is one of the Loa. He is a loa of the dead, along with the other incarnations Baron CimetiÃ¨re, and Baron La Croix.

Baron Samedi stands at the crossroads where the souls of dead humans pass on their way to Guinee. As well as being the all-knowing loa of death, he is the loa of sex and resurrection, frequently represented by phallic symbols and noted for disruption, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for tobacco and rum.

Thanks for the references, Grezzk and Someone. I had honestly thought that someone had made the whole Baron Samedi thing up so I didn’t go looking for any info. It would be cool to have a “voodoo” name for Khaja’s bear.